Motivational Quotes

Change

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

- Jackson, Jesse

Best Quotes about Change

Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

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Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George